Uniq - Perl extension for managing list of values.
use Uniq; my @out = uniq sort @input; my @out = distinct sort @input; my @out = dups sort @input; Uniq exports three methods 'uniq', 'distinct' and 'dups'. All these methods accepts a list and returns a list.
Similar functionality is available at shell prompts of *nix O/S. This modules is attempting to provide the same to Perl programming,
The usage of the methods provided here is simple. You always provide a sorted list to any of these methods and accept a sorted list of values in return. Suppose @lis1 and @list2 are two available lists defined as follows: @list_1 = qw ( first list of values ); @list_1 = qw ( second list of values ); and we run the following commands: my @output_1 = uniq sort @list1 @list2; my @output_2 = distinct sort @list1 @list2; my @output_3 = dups sort @list1 @list2; Now @output_1 has qw( first list of second values ) @output_2 has qw( first second ) and @output_3 has qw( list of values ) Thus @output_1 has all values from either input lists sans any redundant values. @output_2 has exactly those values that appear at most once in combined list. On the other hand @output_3 has a list of values that appear multiple times in input.
Exported are methods 1) uniq [ similar to 'uniq' shell command ] 2) distinct [ similar to 'uniq -u' shell command ] 3) dups [ similar to 'uniq -d' shell command ]
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Syamala Tadigadapa
Copyright 2003 by Syamala Tadigadapa.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Uniq, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Uniq
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Uniq
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.